Julian Schulze De la Cruz
Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer), Partner
Julian Schulze De la Cruz is a partner in our Frankfurt office and co-head of our Capital Markets Practice Group. His practice focuses on capital markets transactions (both ECM and DCM), Public & Private M&A transactions as well as the ongoing corporate law advice to listed companies. He regularly publishes on corporate and securities law topics.
Projects
- Steyr Motors on its IPO at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
- ING-DiBa on the update of its €20bn debt issuance programme and the issue of Pfandbriefe with a volume of €1.0bn
- Mutares on the successful placement of a € 135 million bond (Nordic bond)
- TAG Immobilien on the establishment of a €3bn EMTN programme and the issuance of a 5.5 year benchmark bond
- trivago on strategic investment in Holisto Ltd.
- Jumia Technologies in the placement of 20,227,736 ADSs with a volume of approximately US$ 100 million
- Syndicated lenders in the restructuring of VARTA AG as part of a StaRUG procedure
- ABO Wind AG on the issuance and tap issue of a €80 million green bond
- Creditors in the restructuring of promissory note loans of Branicks Group AG in the context of StaRUG proceedings
- Formycon on a successful capital increase and the issuance of new shares to strategic investor Gedeon Richter
- Daimler Truck on the first-time implementation of its commercial paper program with a total volume of up to € 2.0bn.
- MGG Investment Group on the acquisition of all shares in Spark Networks SE in restructuring proceedings governed by the German StaRUG
- Koehler Invest GmbH on becoming a shareholder and the listing of SMG Technology Acceleration SE (SPAC) as well as merger of BigRep GmbH with SMG Technology Acceleration SE (De-SPAC)
- IBM on acquisition of the webMethods and StreamSets businesses from Software AG (purchase price: €2.13 billion)
- Fresenius Medical Care in the transformation of its legal form into a stock corporation and the deconsolidation of Fresenius, including carve-out
- Heckler & Koch on its €105 million rights issue, including debt-equity swap
- Mutares on successful placement and tap issues of a €250 million bond (Nordic-Bond) and redemption of existing € 80 million bond (Nordic bond)
- Hypoport SE on its €50 million capital increase
- GENUI on the sale of its majority shareholding in Scale-listed fashionette AG to The Platform Group
- Fresenius Medical Care on the issue of bonds in the nominal value of €750m
- Deutsche Industrie Grundbesitz AG on the first cross-border merger of a German public company with a Dutch N.V.
- TAG Immobilien AG on a €202 million rights issue and the first-time launch of a €3bn EMTN program
- CECONOMY on the issue and admission of 125.8 million new shares from a capital increase through contributions in kind and the issue of convertible bonds with a nominal value of €151m
- EQS Group AG on its successful rights issue in the amount of €45 m
- Compleo Charging Solutions AG on its rights issue in the amount of €54.6m
- Deutsche Industrie REIT-AG on the €800 million delisting takeover offer by Dutch CTP N.V.
- Veganz Group AG and the accompanying syndicate banks M.M. Warbung and Quirin Privatbank in the company's IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Scale segment)
- Fresenius Medical Care on the renewal and increase of its commercial paper program with a total volume of €1.5bn
- Mutares SE & Co. KGaA on a €100m rights issue and uplisting to the regulated market (Prime Standard) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
- Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA on a €86.5m rights issue
- International investors on the €375m IPO of Mister Spex on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
- Befesa S.A. on the acquisition of American Zinc Recycling Corp. and a €332m capital increase
- Fresenius Medical Care on the issuance of several bonds with a total volume of US$ 1.5bn
- Quirin Privatbank on the support and placement of a green bond of hep global
- futurum bank on the approval of up to €9 billion bitcoin-backed perpetual bonds issued by Iconic Funds BTC ETN GmbH
- Mutares on the successful placement and tap issue of a €80m bond (Nordic bond)
- Syndicate banks COMMERZBANK, Kempen & Co. and ODDO BHF on the successful capital increase of Compleo Charging Solutions AG
- The Social Chain AG on the successful placement of a convertible bond
- Softline Group on the acquisition of the majority stake in Softline AG
- CECONOMY in agreement with Convergenta to simplify the corporate structure at MediaMarktSaturn in a total volume of €815m, including a capital increase in kind and the issue of convertible bonds
- Syndicate banks COMMERZBANK and ODDO BHF on the IPO of Compleo Charging Solutions AG on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Prime Standard)
- fashionette AG and Hauck & Aufhäuser as accompanying bank on the Company's IPO on the Scale segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
- Federal Republic of Germany - Finance Agency GmbH in the preparation of the model documentation for the WStF and on a stabilization package of TUI AG in the amount of €1.8bn
- The Social Chain AG on its €20.2m capital increase
- Baader Bank and COMMERZBANK on the €58.3m capital increase at Deutsche Industrie REIT-AG
- TAG Immobilien AG in the placement of a €470m convertible bond and a purchase offer for outstanding convertible bonds in the amount of €131m
- Fresenius Medical Care on the issuance of a bond with a volume of US$1.0bn
- Fresenius Medical Care on the issuance of several bonds with a total volume of €1.25bn
- DFV Deutsche Familienversicherung AG on its €32.4m capital increase
- Syndicate banks Jefferies and ODDO BHF on the €50.1m capital increase of Deutsche Konsum REIT-AG
- SDAX listed RIB Software SE on the €1.4bn public takeover bid by Schneider Electric
- DAX companies on the issue of a € 900 million convertible bond and the issue of a € 500 million public bond
- Fresenius Medical Care on the issuance of several bonds with a total volume of €1.75bn and US$500m
- DEMIRE Mittelstand Real Estate AG on the issuance of a €600m crossover bond
- Hertha BSC GmbH & Co. KGaA on the increase of the shareholding of TENNOR Holding
- Frequentis AG on its IPO to the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (General Standard) and the regulated market of the Vienna Stock Exchange (together with CERHA HEMPEL)
- Gateway Real Estate AG on the re-IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Prime Standard) and a €180m private placement
- Fosun International on the strategic acquisition of Tom Tailor Holding SE through a voluntary public tender offer and a capital increase
- DFV Deutsche Familienversicherung AG and the syndicate banks on the IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Prime Standard)
- Fresenius Medical Care on the initial establishment of a €10bn EMTN program and the issuance of a €500m bond
- TAG Immobilien AG in the private placement of a €262m convertible bond and a purchase offer for outstanding bonds in the amount of €310m
Distinctions
- Recommended as a leading lawyer for capital markets and corporate law
Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers in Germany 2024/2025 - Recommended as a leading lawyer for capital markets law, both ECM and DCM
Legal 500 Germany 2024 - Recommended for IPOs and capital increases as well as for bonds
JUVE Handbook 2024/2025 - Recommended as a leading lawyer for capital markets law
Chambers Global Guide 2024 - Recognized as one of the 2023 TOP 10 Remarkable German Equity Lawyers Shaping Capital Markets
Business Today 2023 - "Excellent communication with banks and BaFin, very good results, fast processing"
Client, in: JUVE Handbook 2024/2025 - "I value his high technical expertise and his quick and well-thought-out answers."
Client, in: Chambers Global Guide 2024 - "Very experienced, balanced and pragmatic."
Client, in: Legal 500 Germany 2024 - "He is very smart, knows the market standard and is also fast and responsive."
Client, in: Chambers Global Guide 2023 - "Excellent legal and economic understanding of the relevant parameters."
Client, in: Legal 500 Germany 2023 - "I value Holger [Alfes] and Julian's high-level expertise. They were quick and provided well worked answers. I also appreciate the comprehensive viewpoint they have. So they do not focus on only one category, but they have a wider view. They are switched on. They think proactively and are reliable."
Client, in: Chambers Europe 2024
Insights
Career
Legal studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg (Germany)
Promotion at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany) with Prof. Dr. Mathias Habersack
Intermediate diploma of Business Administration at the FernUniversity Hagen (Germany)
Experience as Lawyer at a leading international law firm in Frankfurt (Germany) and New York (USA)
Experience as Lawyer at a leading US-american law firm in Frankfurt (Germany)
With Noerr since 2016
Admitted to the Frankfurt Chamber of Lawyers (Germany)
Lectures
- Lectureship at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (IPOs)
- Capital increases with subscription rights - Current trends, Capital Market Partner Webinar, Issuer Services (Deutsche Börse), on 9.12.2020
- Lecture on "market soundings" at the WM seminar "The new issuer guideline" on 6.2.2020 in Frankfurt
Publications
- Öffentliche Tauschangebote nach Inkrafttreten des EU Listing Act, in: BKR 2024, 756
- EU Listing Act ante portas, in Börsenzeitung v. 20.04.2024
- Neue Prospektanforderungen für nachhaltigkeitsbezogene Informationen, in Börsenzeitung v. 16.09.2023
- Das Übernahmeverfahren wird digitalisiert, bleibt aber deutschsprachig, in: Börsenzeitung v. 22.07.2023
- EU Listing Act - Ambitious Goals of the Commission (together with Philip M. Schmoll), in: Börsenzeitung 2020, issue 243 v. 16.12.2022, p. 11
- The Exemption Document for Public Exchange Offers under WpÜG under the new Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/528 (together with Philip M. Schmoll and Thomas Thies), in: WM 2022, p. 1817.
- Success factors for rights issues, guest article in: Platow Recht, issue v. 16.6.2021 (with Stephan Schulz).
- Simplified equity raising in the Corona crisis - A new type of prospectus is intended to remove obstacles to raising equity capital (together with Philip M. Schmoll), in: Börsenzeitung 2020, issue 230 v. 28.11.2020, p. 9
- Possible restrictions of the creditor protection regulation of § 225 AktG in loan agreements or bond conditions (together with Laurenz Wieneke), in: WM 2020, p. 1720-1728
- Comments on §§ 9-16 para. 2 SchVG, in: Reinhard/Schall, Commentary on the SchVG, 1st edition 2020
- Exchange offers according to WpÜG in light of the new prospectus regulation (together with Philip M. Schmoll), in: WM 2020, p. 630-638
- Not the big success - New prospectus law should make public exchange offers much easier - Much depends on the will to reform in Brussels, Börsenzeitung 2020, issue 32 as of 15/02/2020, p. 9
- Der neue Normzweck des Rechts der Gesellschafterdarlehen und seine Auswirkungen auf den persönlichen Anwendungsbereich (PhD Thesis), Dunker & Humblot (Publication series: Abhandlungen zum Deutschen und Europäischen Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht, issue 87), Berlin 2015
- Das Stimmverbot nach § 136 I AktG bei der Entlastung von Vorstandsdoppelmandatsträgern (with Sven Petersen), in: NZG 2012, p. 453